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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Johnny Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years.
Strayhorn also arranged many of Ellington's band-within-a-band recordings and provided harmonic clarity and polish to Duke's compositions. Ellington gave Strayhorn full credit as his collaborator on later, larger works such as Such Sweet Thunder , A Drum Is a Woman , The Perfume Suite, and Far East Suite , where Strayhorn and Ellington worked ...
While it is Ellington’s name on the album cover, the reason we treat his name as synonymous with jazz is because of the music his band created, writes Sammy Miller. Opinion: What made Duke ...
Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., United States. [3] He was the only child of the composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington and his high school sweetheart Edna Thompson (d. 1967), whom Duke married in 1918 and never divorced. Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem from the age of eight. By the age of eighteen, Ellington had written ...
In 1931, she became the first full-time vocalist in the Duke Ellington orchestra. [4] Her career for over a decade consisted of touring with Ellington. Her first appearance on record, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", recorded in 1932, was a hit. [4] She participated in Ellington's first European tour in 1933. [2]
The Count Meets the Duke (Columbia) 1961 S.R.O. (LRC, 1989) 1962 Featuring Paul Gonsalves (Fantasy, 1985) 1963 Afro-Bossa (Reprise) 1963 The Great Paris Concert (Atlantic, 1973) 1963 The Symphonic Ellington (Reprise) 1964 All Star Road Band Volume 2 (Doctor Jazz, 1985) 1964 Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins (Reprise) 1964 Ellington '65 (Reprise)
Paul Gonsalves (() July 12, 1920 – () May 15, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist [1] best known for his association with Duke Ellington.At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," [2] a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s.